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- users with reputation < 10 belong to "simple_users" users' group
- if your reputation > 10 then administrator (kerk, Luvilla) can decide to move you into an "improved" group, but only manually

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- you may:
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* purchase temporary access to the improved category:
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20 $ for 3 months. - this group can download attachments, reputation/posts do not matter + adds eliminated + Inbox capacity increased + files manager increased permissions.

Please contact kerk or Luvilla regarding payments.

Important!:
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In this thread we do requests for hacks.Attention! Request should contain:

Full name of hack.

Version of hack (the forum version is not necessary).

Link for hack.

Users who will post request incorrectly, will receive preventions. After three infringements the user will be banned.
Admin cannot view/read PM of users! Such hacks are forbidden. Who will make such request, will be immediately banned!

This is FAQ
Questions:
What is required for this mod to work?
What to do, to have translations links good for SEO consensus?
I have indexed pages from old translator (with hl=) - what to do?
I have indexed pages from old links type (with language=) and want switch to SEO links- what to do?
How do you get back to default language after you click a flag?
I have warnings in safe mode - what to do?
Can I add translated pages to sitemap?

Answers:
What is required for this mod to work?
- You must install it and configure it appropriatelly (please read parameters descriptions carefully)
- You must have installed CURL in your php. Most servers already have it. Just install this mod and if it is not working then ask your server stuff to install CURL. In meantime you can disable mod or remove flags so users will not be affected. If you get blank page for translation pages (it will not affect your normal pages) it means that you don't have CURL installed - just install it

What to do, to have translations links good for SEO consensus?
You must have vbSEO, you must set in options of this mod to use SEO links, you must edit .htaccess file.
About editing .htaccess file:
1st above all rules to vbseo.php put this rule
Code:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?((sq|ar|bg|ca|zh-CN|hr|cs|da|nl|en|et|tl|fi|fr|gl|de|el|iw|hi|hu|id|it|ja|ko|lv|lt|mt|no|fa|pl|pt|ro|ru|sr|sk|sl|es|sv|zh-TW|th|tr|uk|vi|sq|ca|et|tl|gl|hi|id|lv|lt|mt|sl|uk|vi))/?$ vbenterprisetranslator_seo.php?vbseourl=$1/index.php [L,QSA]
2nd change all vbseo.php to vbenterprisetranslator_seo.php

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule $ vbenterprisetranslator_seo.php [L,QSA]
I have indexed pages from old translator (with hl=) - what to do?
Thanks for solution to T2x
Just set rewrite rule in .htaccess - Google will know that page have new place and will reindex it without any loss
Code:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (hl=)(zh-TW|zh-CN|..)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1\?language=%2 [L,R=301]
I have indexed pages from old links type (with language=) and want switch to SEO links- what to do?
First make SEO links available. After that add this rule to .htaccess (before SEO rules):
Code:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (hl=|language=)(zh-TW|zh-CN|..)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/%2/$1? [L,R=301]
Note that this rule will also handle redirections for links from old translator (with hl=)

How do you get back to default language after you click a flag?
If you have set tracking option on, then to go back to your default language you must just click flag for your default language

I hope someone will re-make this hack for 3.8.x it was super useful
Sorry to hear about the mod writer's passing RIP. This is a great mod. I've installed it on a 3.8 board and it seems to be running fine. I just followed the configuration option here and manually edited the MEMBERINFO template to get it showing on the member's profile page.

I searched for
Code:
<if condition="$show['edit_profile']">
<li class="thead"><a href="moderator.php?$session[sessionurl]do=useroptions&amp;u=$userinfo[userid]">$vbphrase[edit_user_profile]</a></li>
</if>
And after it added

Code:
<li class="thead"><a href="misc.php?$session[sessionurl]do=spamcleanconfirm&amp;u=$userinfo[userid]">$vbphrase[spammer_ban_member]</a></li>
I don't know if that will work for everyone but it certainly worked for me.

For those of you who use the "Send Email to Users" function in the admin cp may have noticed it is less than efficient. This is really not the Vbulletin teams fault, it is just the fact that sending a lot of emails via PHP is like emptying lake with a bucket.

For administrators with a very large user base, sending email this way is not only very time consuming, but can be taxing on a servers resources.

With this extension, you can save your mass mailings or newsletters in a batch that can be sent at any time you wish, or on a schedule using a program like crontab.

You can even use a separate server to send the email if you wish.

Version 1.1 now supports the hack Send HTML via admin CP so you can batch mail HTML emails.

As for Telnet/SSH access, you will most likely need this unless you can schedule a cronjob via your servers admin GUI.

CHANGELOG:

01/05/2005: Added support for SMTP
01/05/2005: Modified code to include Vbulletin generated mail headers and encoding

Installation (detailed in readme file):

Install the product via your admin cp.

Open the list.cgi file and edit the database variables and upload to server IN ASCII MODE. Do not use Binary or Auto mode to upload list.cgi. You should upload this file in an area that is NOT accessible by a web browser.

Click Install

That is it. If you wish to use scheduled batches then you will have to set up a cronjob to execute the list.cgi file.

You can execute the list.cgi file any time you wish on your server like so:

"perl list.cgi"

What does this do exactly?:

In a nutshell, when you enter a message into the mass mail feature of Vbulletin, it saves the message details to a new table created by the product (massmail). When list.cgi is executed, it will go through this table and email everyone in the table and delete their entry after the mail is sent.

Usage:

The only thing you should do differently is set the "Emails to send at once" value to at least the amount of users you have registered. It defaults at 500 but the whole point of this hack is to eliminate having to send email in blocks and wait for the process to finish. Just set it to a real high number.

To Do:

For those Windows servers, I suppose the Send_Mail routine could use SMTP. This is not hard to do I just never use Windows servers so what's the point?

Quote:

I also need the hidden codes from: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showp...7&postcount=47

PHP Code:

$db->query_write("DROP " . TABLE_PREFIX . "massmail");

Quote:

and http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showp...0&postcount=49

Quote:

Originally Posted by UK Jimbo

Looks like it does just remove that table. To make it run correctly change it to the following: